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“Luke Nicholas” at the New York International Fringe Festival at Teatro Circulo (Closed Saturday August 17, 2013)

August 14, 2013 | dance nation, LGBTQ+, NY International Fringe, the prom > | LGBT, NY International Fringe

“Luke Nicholas” is the quintessential example of what should be found at the ongoing NY International Fringe Festival. It is good theater, refreshing, new, innovative and well written, always keeping the audience engaged with surprising twists and turns. It examines the parameters of an open gay relationship testing boundaries only to realize what is required to survive the sometimes ugly,…

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“Adam & Steve and the Empty Sea” at the New York International Fringe Festival at CSV Kabayitos (Closed Thursday August 15, 2013)

August 12, 2013 | LGBTQ+, NY International Fringe > | LGBT, NY International Fringe

Friends from childhood, Adam (Topher Rasmussen) and Steve (Logan Tarantino) each need validation from the other as they move forward from graduation and decide where to spend their college years together. Adam needs to know his friend affirms his strong commitment to Mormon values and, after coming out to Adam, Steve needs to know his friend truly understands his sexual…

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“cal and grey” at the New York International Fringe Festival at CSV Kabayitos (Closed Saturday August 24, 2013)

August 12, 2013 | asi wind, LGBTQ+, NY International Fringe, sense and > | LGBT, NY International Fringe

Cal and Grey (“with an ‘e’”) are two teenage boys considered to be expendable. They were warehoused in their post-infancy by the revolutionary regime whose takeover eliminated “all men and women” and placed all children in orphanages until they were twenty-one. With many other institutionalized children, Cal and Grey survive by adhering to a diet of strict obedience to a…

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“Harbor” at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters (Closed September 8, 2013)

August 6, 2013 | currently at. 59e59, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | 59E59 Theaters, LGBT, Primary Stages

“Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that…

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“Boys Will Be Boys” at the New York Musical Theatre Festival at the Studio Theatre (Closed July 24, 2013)

July 23, 2013 | LGBTQ+, NY Musical Theatre, once on this island > | LGBT, New York Musical Theatre Festival

Billed as an ‘Out-rageous Musical Revue,’ “Boys Will Be Boys” presented at the Studio Theater as part of the ongoing NYMF certainly lives up to its claim. Almost everything from concept, lyrics, characters, parodies and innuendos are completely over the top and as gay as one can possibly imagine. It is a fun romp very reminiscent in style to the…

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“Dwight” at the Fresh Fruit Festival at the Wild Project (Closed July 21, 2013)

July 22, 2013 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | Fresh Fruit Festival, LGBT, The Wild Project

“Dwight” is an ill-conceived new play about a group of unlikable LGBT friends (well, no one really knows Cash’s precise sexual status) who hang out in Cash’s BIN, recycle, create art from their recycled treasures, and grumble a lot, especially when Dwight is around – which is most of the time. They unfortunately mistake ex-gangbanger Lex as their enemy even…

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“After the Chairs” at the Fresh Fruit Festival at the Wild Project (Closed July 14, 2013)

July 11, 2013 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, trapped > | Fresh Fruit Festival, LGBT, The Wild Project

All goes extremely well in David Koteles’ “After the Chairs” – his inventive reimagining/retelling of Ianesco’s “The Chairs” – until the otherwise well constructed play’s end. Marc (Allen Warnock) and his partner Richard (Don Cummings) are unique re-tellings of Ianesco’s Old Man and Old Woman. Here the couple is trapped in an absurdist cycle of caregiver-patient conversation that serves as…

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“Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies” at East of Edinburgh at 59E59 Theaters (Closed July 11, 2013)

July 10, 2013 | east to edinburgh, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | 59E59 Theaters, East of Edinburgh, LGBT

“Her hair is Harlow gold, her lips sweet surprise / Her hands are never cold, she’s got Bette Davis eyes.” (Donna Weiss, Jackie DeShannon) Jessica Sherr has those Bette Davis eyes along with remarkable Davis lookalike hair and lips. This actor utilizes all of these assets to create a winning retrospective of Bette Davis’ personal life and career. The 1939…

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“The Girl I Left Behind Me” at 59E59 Theaters

May 16, 2013 | LGBTQ+, mean girls, Off-Broadway > | 59E59 Theaters

“After the ball is over/After the break of morn After the dancers’ leaving/After the stars are gone Many a heart is aching/If you could read them all Many the hopes that have vanished/After the ball.” “After the Ball,” Charles K. Harris (1892) A group of brave and talented women left hearts aching after their performances: aching men’s hearts; aching women’s…

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“Not as Cute as Picture” at the Duplex

March 26, 2013 | Cabaret, LGBTQ+ > | The Duplex

A slice of gay life or for that matter any selective lifestyle is the scenario that plays out in J. D. Cerna’s solo show “Not as Cute as Picture” taking the stage at the historic Duplex in Greenwich Village. Rather than the common coming out or coming of age drama this falls more into the finding myself category in which…

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